{"id":613024,"date":"2021-08-05T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=613024"},"modified":"2021-08-05T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:36:48","slug":"democrat-cori-bush-i-get-private-security-to-protect-me-so-suck-it-up-and-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-cori-bush-i-get-private-security-to-protect-me-so-suck-it-up-and-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Cori Bush: I Get Private Security To Protect Me, So \u2018Suck It Up\u2019 And \u2018Defund The Police\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-cori-bush-i-get-private-security-to-protect-me-so-suck-it-up-and-defund-the-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=613024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Cori-Bush-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) declared during an interview on Thursday that \u201cdefunding the police has to happen,\u201d a statement that she made immediately after she told critics to \u201csuck it up\u201d when she was faced with questions about her paying tens of thousands of dollars for private security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou faced some criticism in recent weeks over your push to defund the police,\u201d a CBS News host said to Bush. \u201cCampaign records show that you spent roughly $70,000 on private security, and some critics say that move is hypocritical. What\u2019s your response to those critics?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do,\u201d Bush said. \u201cThere are too many people that need help right now for me to allow that. So, if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend $10 more dollars on it, you know what, I get to be here to do the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, suck it up and defunding the police has to happen,\u201d she added. \u201cWe need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8698224852071\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cori Bush: I\u2019m going to make sure I have private security but defunding the police needs to happen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6jbv4HLlGs\">pic.twitter.com\/6jbv4HLlGs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Berg (@MikeKBerg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeKBerg\/status\/1423257378993147907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>REP. CORI BUSH (D-MO): The thing, I won\u2019t let them get that off, you can\u2019t get that off. I\u2019m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do. There are too many people that need help right now for me to allow that. So, if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend $10 more dollars on it, you know what, I get to be here to do the work. So, suck it up and defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) declared during an interview on Thursday that \u201cdefunding the police has to happen,\u201d a statement that she made immediately after she told critics to \u201csuck it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}